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YOU DON’T OWE ANYONE de Caroline Garnet McGraw

Inspired by the author’s viral essay and subsequent TEDx Talk « You Don’t Owe Anyone an Interaction, » this empowering book combines personal stories and tangible solutions to free perfectionists from the weight of expectations.

YOU DON’T OWE ANYONE:
Free Yourself from the Weight of Expectations
by Caroline Garnet McGraw
Broadleaf Books, April 2021
(chez Kaplan/DeFiore Rights – voir catalogue)

YOU DON’T OWE ANYONE is for perfectionists, workaholics, people pleasers, and strivers who feel stuck in the try-hard cycle. Sharing her experiences as a life coach and recovering perfectionist, Caroline Garnet McGraw shows us how we can free ourselves from the weight of expectations and encourages us to move our lives forward without apology. Inspired by the author’s viral essay « You Don’t Owe Anyone an Interaction, » this book invites us to make surprising choices that can help us get unstuck. Rather than offering more ways to effect change through sheer effort, these personal stories serve as a compassionate witness, a reflection of our own perfectionistic tendencies. They also are a wakeup call jolting us out of our martyr mentality and inspiring us to move in new, positive directions. Through simple, accessible coaching practices, YOU DON’T OWE ANYONE shows us what it looks like to refuse to over-function in the old ways. It invites us to make the same surprising choices that have helped McGraw and her clients move past perfectionism, empowering us to quiet our fears and heal our hearts.

Caroline Garnet McGraw is an author, speaker and coach for recovering perfectionists. She’s the creator of A Wish Come Clear, a popular blog devoted to trading perfectionism for possibility, as well as several online interview series. She’s a two-time TEDx speaker, and her essays have been featured on The Huffington Post, Momastery, and Women For One. Caroline lives in Florence, Alabama with her family.

DIE SPUR DES SCHWEIGENS de Amelie Fried

Nothing is what it seems. No one is who they claim to be. Will the truth come out?

DIE SPUR DES SCHWEIGENS
(The Trace of Silence)
by Amelie Fried
Heyne/Verlagsgruppe Random House Bertelsmann, August 2020 (voir catalogue)

Journalist Julia struggles to make ends meet as a freelance writer and dreams of the big, investigative story. She receives a tip-off about possible sexual assaults at a renowned research institute. Tired of the me-too debate, she only half-heartedly pursues the suspicion at first. But as soon as the first victim contacts her and Julia meets the attractive prime suspect, her journalistic instinct is awakened. At the institute she encounters a dangerous mixture of abuse of power, silence and cover-ups – and a shocking connection to her brother Robert, who disappeared without a trace twelve years earlier. Suddenly Julia has to ask herself unplea-sant questions: What does Robert have to do with the suicide of a Chinese doctoral student? Why was his body never found? Has she been missing something all these years?

Amelie Fried, born in 1958, presented various TV programs. All her novels are bestsellers and were made into successful TV films. She has received numerous awards for her children’s books, including the German Youth Literature Award.

DAS GEHEIMNIS AUSGEGLICHENER MÜTTER de Karella Easwaran

A groundbreaking guide for mothers – by mind-body medicine specialist Dr. Karella Easwaran.

DAS GEHEIMNIS AUSGEGLICHENER MÜTTER
(The Secret of Calm and Composed Mothers)
by Dr. Karella Easwaran

Kösel/Verlagsgruppe Random House Bertelsmann, August 2020 (voir catalogue)

Being a mother is the most wonderful job in the world – but also the most demanding. Pressures of high expectations, overwhelming responsibilities, and exhaustion are just some of the stress factors that can lead to health problems such as cardiovascular disease and depression. What are the best ways to help mothers?
The renowned paediatrician Dr. Karella Easwaran, who has been supporting mothers for many years, is convinced that the solution to the problem lies in the mind! As an expert in mind-body medicine, she has developed the technique of « beneficial thinking ». This begins with the processes in our brain. When properly controlled, beneficial thinking can easily and sustainably change our perception and behaviour. Karella Easwaran’s conclusion is that when we subdue our energy-depleting thought patterns, we can finally dispel stress.

Dr. Karella Easwaran, born in 1965, studied medicine in Hungary and became a specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine at the University Children’s Hospital in Cologne. She is competent as well in naturopathy and nutritional medicine. In recent years she has focused on mind-body medicine and furthered her knowledge and experience at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Harvard University. She works as a paediatrician in her own practice. Her first book, The Secret of Healthy Children: What Parents Should and Should Not Do, is a bestseller.

ROTKÄPPCHEN RAUCHT AUF DEM BALKON de Wladimir Kaminer

When the children have grown up, and the grandparents have become children again.

ROTKÄPPCHEN RAUCHT AUF DEM BALKON
(Red Riding Hood Is Smoking on the Balcony)
by Wladimir Kaminer

Goldmann/Verlagsgruppe Random House Bertelsmann, August 2020 (voir catalogue)

Children are odd. And so are grandparents. Children grow up, get a mortgage, and refuse to touch the cheap booze they used to binge-drink at parties – while their grandparents rediscover a childlike pleasure in conquering the world and pushing the boundaries. Meanwhile, the younger generation prefers to stay at home, and to ‘find’ itself by living between the fridge and the computer. In this new collection of stories, told with much love and humour, family man Wladimir Kaminer reveals the complicated relationship between the generations.

Wladimir Kaminer, born in Moscow in 1967, trained as a sound engineer for theatre and radio and then studied dramaturgy at the Moscow Theatre Institute. He has been living in Berlin since 1990. He is a regular contributor to various newspapers and magazines, and he organises events. His volume of short stories, Russendisko, and numerous other books have made him into one of the most popular and sought-after writers in Germany.

DER WEIßE ABGRUND de Henning Boëtius

A biographical novel on Heinrich Heine’s later years and his last great love.

DER WEIßE ABGRUND
(The White Abyss)
by Henning Boëtius

btb/Verlagsgruppe Random House Bertelsmann, July 2020 (voir catalogue)

Paris, ca. 1850. Bed-ridden and terminally ill, Heinrich Heine wants to prise one final work from the jaws of death: His memoirs are to be his magnum opus. It’s been a long time since he last attended an illustrious bohemian dinner – instead, he receives occasional visits from German exiles and French artist friends. One day, Elise Krinitz seeks him out. The young woman admires Heine, and hopes to find in him a mentor for her own literary ambitions. He tenderly and ironically calls her ‘Mouche’, and they soon embark on a platonic, but nonetheless passionate affair. Yet when Heine dies on the 17th February 1856, his memoirs are lost forever. Steeped in the fascinating panorama of 1850s Paris, Boëtius’s novel is a unique portrait of the final years of the great German poet Heinrich Heine.

Henning Boëtius was born in 1939, studied German and philosophy and gained his PhD in 1967. Boëtius has authored a wide range of publications that include novels, essays, poems and non-fiction. His novel Phoenix from Ash has been translated into many languages. He is also well known for his crime novels.